Expedition to Europe

"Vladivostok" is the largest, most modern and most powerful battleship of the Lan Fang Navy. Even in the next few decades, Lan Fang will not build a battleship larger than "Vladivostok".

Lan Fang is indeed jointly developing "corps-level" battleships with France, but "corps-level" is just a cover to induce Britain and the United States to continue to develop battleships. The Lan Fang Navy will shift its focus to aircraft carriers.

So the current "Vladivostok" and the future "Lelang" may be the largest battleships of Lan Fang.

Although it is an inevitable trend for aircraft carriers to replace battleships as the hegemon of the sea, there are still many people in the navy who firmly believe that giant ships and cannons are the key factors in determining the outcome of naval battles.

Therefore, this handover ceremony undoubtedly attracted many people's attention, including Britain, France, the United States, Germany, and the people. Their ambassadors to Lan Fang all came back to participate in this ceremony.

Of course, they were under the banner of congratulations, and as for what they were thinking in their hearts, only they themselves knew.

The next morning, envoys from various countries arrived in Lan Fang, and the handover ceremony officially began at 9 am.

According to the plan of the Lan Fang military, under the premise that the Cam Ranh Bay Fleet already had the "France", the "Vladivostok" would be assigned to the Vladivostok Fleet and would become the flagship of the Vladivostok Fleet.

There was no big objection to the Cam Ranh Bay Fleet, because the next "Lelang" would be equipped with the Cam Ranh Bay Fleet. In that case, the Cam Ranh Bay Fleet would still be the most powerful fleet of Lan Fang.

The reason why there was no "big" objection was because Antonio, the Minister of the Navy of Lan Fang, originally wanted to hand over the "Vladivostok" to the Cam Ranh Bay Fleet, and then the Cam Ranh Bay Fleet would hand over the "France" to the Vladivostok Fleet.

Unfortunately, this idea was sternly rejected by Tan Xueheng, the commander of the Vladivostok Fleet. Tan Xueheng even took the lawsuit to Qin Zhiyuan to ensure that the "Vladivostok" could join the Vladivostok Fleet.

Qin Zhiyuan supported Tan Xueheng's opinion, so this handover took place.

At nine o'clock, the military band played the military song of the Vladivostok Fleet, "Vladivostok March", and the handover ceremony officially began.

When the "Vladivostok March" was played, Qin Zhiyuan had an absurd sense of time and space confusion.

Yes, it was time and space confusion, because this "Vladivostok March" was the famous "Soviet March" in another time and space.

Of course, this game music created by Americans in this time and space absolutely does not have any infringement issues. Qin Zhiyuan even thought about using this song as Lan Fang's military song, but the Russian style in this song was too strong, and this plan was eventually aborted.

Music has no borders. After Lan Fang took over the northern Xinjiang region, it seemed no problem to add more Russian elements to Lan Fang's music. So this song was immediately designated as the military song of the Vladivostok Fleet and sung on different occasions.

"This song is really spectacular, I like it!" Bastian on the rostrum was the first to express his attitude to Qin Zhiyuan.

"Vladivostok March" is magnificent and has a brisk rhythm. It is the kind of music that can make people excited. This song seems to have a kind of magic, making people more excited the more they listen, especially with the majestic warships and the upright soldiers, it can show the boiling blood and unruly, which is simply unstoppable.

"I'll give you a record later, the Lan Fang National Orchestra version." Qin Zhiyuan generously.

The Lanfang National Orchestra is an orchestra established to cooperate with the Lanfang National Grand Theater. This orchestra has been established for more than half a year. Most of the orchestra members are musicians hired from Germany with high salaries. Of course, some are from France. The vast majority of them have joined the Lanfang nationality.

The Lanfang National Grand Theater is undergoing final decoration. After it is put into use, the National Grand Theater will regularly hold various concerts, music festivals, and even film festivals to enhance the cultural image of Lanfang and create a richer cultural atmosphere.

"Haha... That's great." Bastien was overjoyed.

Today's records are still vinyl records, and recording is not easy, especially the level of the Lanfang National Orchestra, which is very collectible.

While the military band was playing the "Vladivostok March", the "Vladivostok" was moored at the dock opposite the rostrum. Although the handover ceremony had not yet begun, there were already officers and soldiers in white naval uniforms standing on the "Vladivostok", but the Lan Fang national flag and the naval flag had not yet been hoisted, which were also things that needed to be handed over at the handover ceremony.

In fact, sitting on the rostrum, looking at the "Vladivostok" in this way, it was really deterrent.

Although the "Vladivostok" had undergone a certain degree of modification, the tall bridge design had not been changed, and because the "Vladivostok" had added some new equipment, the height of the "Vladivostok" was much higher than the original height, reaching about 46 meters, which was about the height of 17 or 18 floors.

The naval guns used by the "Vladivostok" are 410mm naval guns. Even the Americans and French do not have similar technology for this caliber of naval guns. Only the British and Japanese can make them. However, after the Lanfang War against Japan, the United States and France both obtained the technology of 410mm naval guns from Japan. In time, the Americans and French can indeed make them, but not now. So when they saw the eight 410mm caliber naval guns on the "Vladivostok", the American ambassador to Lanfang, Glynton Augustine, and the British ambassador to Lanfang, Owen Jonah, exchanged meaningful glances.

Of course, in the eyes of the German ambassador to Lanfang, Ribbentrop, and the Republic of China ambassador to Lanfang, Gu Weijun, there was only joy and encouragement in the eyes of the majestic "Vladivostok".

Yes, Gu Weijun is currently the ambassador of the Republic of China to Lanfang. Right next to Gu Weijun, there is another person that Qin Zhiyuan did not expect. That person is one of Huang Bohan's many daughters. This is really a bit unexpected. Huang Bohan's daughter is so close to Gu Weijun and behaves intimately.

Yeah, although Qin Zhiyuan is a time traveler, he can't remember all the historical details clearly. In the original history, Gu Weijun's third wife is Huang Bohan's daughter Huang Huilan.

Gu Weijun just turned 31 this year, which is the age of youth and beauty. Being with Huang Huilan is indeed a perfect match of talent and beauty.

By the way, Gu Weijun's previous wife was Tang Baoyue, the daughter of Tang Zhaoyi, the then Prime Minister of the Republic of China. Tang Baoyue unfortunately died in the Spanish flu last year.

Speaking of this Tang Baoyue, this is even more of a strange woman who dares to love and hate.

When Tang Baoyue met Gu Weijun, Gu Weijun had just returned from Columbia with a doctorate in law. Tang Baoyue fell in love with Gu Weijun at first sight and immediately decided to marry him.

But at this time, Gu Weijun had a marriage arranged since childhood. When Tang Zhaoyi found out, she was furious and ordered Gu Weijun to return to Shanghai and marry his fiancée immediately.

This matter naturally could not be hidden from Tang Baoyue, so Tang Baoyue and Tang Zhaoyi started a jaw-dropping competition about love.

Tang Baoyue first said to Tang Zhaoyi: If you don't let Gu Weijun and I marry, I will shave my head and become a nun.

How could Tang Zhaoyi, who was already the Prime Minister, be coerced by such a small trick, so Tang Baoyue's threat failed.

The original text can be read in Liu # 9 @Shu/Bar!

Tang Baoyue's threat failed, so she took actual action and ran to Baiyun Temple in the suburbs of Beijing, and then ordered her followers to inform Tang Zhaoyi: I have chosen a date to shave my head, blah blah blah.

It is not so easy for the daughter of the Prime Minister to shave her head. The master of Baiyun Temple is not stupid, so how could he cause such trouble? Tang Baoyue's followers did not dare to deceive Tang Zhaoyi, so Tang Baoyue's actual actions did not produce any effect.

However, a female man is a female man after all. Tang Baoyue finally returned to the capital and found Tang Zhaoyi: If you don't call Gu Weijun back to me, I will go to the Eight Great Hutongs to work, and I will also have to bear the sign of the Prime Minister's daughter.

The Eight Great Hutongs are the red-light district of the capital. If the Prime Minister's daughter goes to work, it will definitely attract thousands of prostitutes to line up to see her, so Tang Zhaoyi immediately surrendered unconditionally.

... I have gone too far.

Okay, let's talk about the handover ceremony.

At nine o'clock, the "Vladivostok March" had been played over and over again many times. Xie Rundong, the commander of the guerrilla fleet and the captain of the "Wanghai" aircraft carrier who was responsible for presiding over the ceremony, announced the start of the handover ceremony.

In fact, all the ceremonies, if viewed in general, are indeed exciting, but in terms of details, they are really lackluster, especially the handover of the "Vladivostok" ceremony. Because of its special significance, many senior officials came to the scene. So many people can't come for nothing. If there is a chance, they all have to go up and say a few words. So the ceremony just started and entered the "speech procedure".

It was really a procedure. First, Lan Fang Prime Minister Lu Zhengxiang spoke, then Defense Minister Qin Zhisheng, Navy Minister Antonio, Cam Ranh Bay Shipyard Director Huang Yinrong, Chief Engineer Zhang Youhe, Vladivostok Fleet Commander Tan Xueheng, etc., etc., a dozen senior officials came to the stage to speak in turn.

After all this, everyone actually felt a little impatient, so when Xie Rundong announced that Qin Zhiyuan and Qin Zhisheng would come on stage to present the flag, the atmosphere was particularly warm.

Yes, it was Qin Zhiyuan and Qin Zhisheng. Even if Lu Zhengxiang was present as the prime minister, he had no part in the flag presentation. All the flag presentations of the Lan Fang military were completed by the royal family and had nothing to do with the government.

According to the scheduled procedure, Qin Zhiyuan will present the Lanfang national flag to Tan Xueheng, commander of the Vladivostok Fleet, and Qin Zhisheng will present the Lanfang military flag to Tan Xueheng.

The national flag of Lanfang is still the tricolor flag, and the military flag adds the shell symbol and the cross symbol on the basis of the tricolor flag.

When Qin Zhiyuan handed the national flag to Tan Xueheng, Qin Zhiyuan saw tears in Tan Xueheng's eyes.

"Work hard and never give up!" Qin Zhiyuan said earnestly.

"Yes, never give up!" Tan Xueheng promised.

Never give up, this is the creed of the Lanfang army.